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LP and Little Man love anything creative – they paint, colour and draw pretty much constantly. Every day involves something arty and so when we were sent PlayMais to try out they couldn’t wait to get going and create something bright and colourful!
PlayMais is unlike anything we have used before. It comes as one box of materials and some activity cards to get started. The materials look like brightly coloured packing beads and I wondered how we would create anything using them. But PlayMais are so simple to use that you don’t need much creative ability to get going.
All we had to do was wet the PlayMais and they would stick together – or to paper, allowing us to create pictures with them. If we got them too wet they’d disintegrate so we had to make sure we put on just enough to make them stick.
The PlayMais can be cut and shaped with your fingers although LP and Little Man found it easier to just use the PlayMais as they were, sticking them together and creating really colourful pictures with them – houses, trains and anything else that they could think of.
But, PlayMais can also be used to make three dimensional creations – your imagination really is the only limitation to the things you can make using PlayMais. Once you’re used to moulding and shaping it, as well as how much water you need you can pretty much create anything. These are a couple of examples from PlayMais:
It’s so nice to find a creative activity that isn’t really messy – the children got some of the PlayMais colour on their fingertips and that was as bad as it got. Often the mess can put you off doing crafts at home but with PlayMais you just don’t need to worry. It’s also such a nice activity to do together with the children. The children loved helping each other find the right colours and talking about what they were creating. It was also great for building on their fine motor skills.
Tracy Nixon says
I’d create a unicorn!
Claire Bayliss says
I think my youngest would love this. I can see her wanting to make ponies x
lucy higgins says
Cats as my nieces love them
Sue McCarthy says
I don’t have any children but would love to win this prize for charity, to go to Romania.
Susan Smith says
Unicorns, they are magical
Anthony Harrington says
a spaceship or dinosaur
iain maciver says
cats
Becky Yeomans says
A ferris wheel would be cool to do!
Amanda says
We would create a Spaceship
Amy Wright says
My son would create a boat
G Keegan says
I think my daughter would try and make Poppy Troll!
Sarah Mackay says
A pig
Elizabeth Hinds says
I would create a hamster as my daughters’ have a pet one and they would love it!
justine meyer says
we would make some pigs as we love them x
MARGARET gallagher says
It would be a dinosaur
Looks loads of fun
Katie Skeoch says
I’d have to make dinosaurs with my boys!
Lorna Ledger says
Fairy’s and dinosaurs! We would create our own little world ! xx
Jo Carroll says
We’d make some farm animals…maybe some Easter rabbits and chicks. x
Solange says
A spaceship.
Harline parkin says
A butterfly
Martina Pichova says
My son would probably create something from Minecraft and my daughter would ask me to make her a dinosaur.
EJ Dunn says
Some flowers
Katie says
This looks great! I’d make animals.
aj says
a tiger
Katy Malkin says
Lots of little jungle animals!
Victoria Hall says
Dinosaurs, that all my little one every wants to draw/make!
Liam Bishop says
Looks cool, I’d totally make a dragon!
Ruth Harwood says
An attempt at a dinosaur!!
Ema J Lowe says
a sunset
CLAIRE WOODS says
monsters
Ella L says
Archie and I would attempt to design a train
claire griffiths says
some animals all different ones
Stevie says
I think we would attempt to make some Easter cards for the family.
Samantha Atherton says
Me & my little girl would make a bunny
Rachel Butterworth says
A dinosaur.
Lisa Wilkinson says
Some pretend cakes
Rich Tyler says
A T REX!
Jules page says
Farm animals
janine atkin says
id make dinosaurs
kimberley ryan says
a train or a dinosaur with my boys
MANDY DOHERTY says
Animals
Kim Neville says
My son would make a car
Christine Caple says
Animals and birds
Rebecca Howells (@PeanutHog) says
Lots of different animals.
Jo Hutchinson says
A butterfly
Stephen Little says
An aeroplane
Paula Phillips says
My children would like to make cars and dinosaurs.
Sheri Darby says
A multi coloured elephant
JULIE WARD says
Grandaughter would most probably make lots of flowers
Susan B says
We would probably make cars or trucks.
Hayley Colburn says
They would be for my daughter, she loves all kinds of crafts, she’s realy into drawing butterflies at the moment so she’d most likely start with them
natalee gosiewski says
a farm
ellie spider says
H loves my little ponies so we would prob make ponies
Josh Gough says
I don’t have any children but would love to win this prize for charity, to go to Romania.
Diana says
A butterfly 🙂
carol boffey says
a unicorn
Tracey Mitchell says
Not really sure but would have huge fun with this thanks for running this great giveaway.
Teresa sheldon says
A giraffe love giraffes
John Jewett says
Grandkids love peppa pig so !
Tee Simpson says
We would make an owl as its my daughters favourite animal
Natalie Crossan says
Some zoo animals i think 😀 xxx